Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-03-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

A half hundred persons arrived at
Walla Walla one day last week from
Missouri.
1t is said that during the recent
storm east of the mountains the wind
blew 100 miles an hour at Wallula.
Never in the history of the Territory
were prospects for crops so good.
Stockmen are all elated over the out
look, as well as farmers.
! The Postmaster at Spokane Falls is
compelled to pay his clerks partly out
of his own pocket, which leaves him
only $29 SO per month for performing
his duties. His official bond is $751;
600.
Goldendale Tribune: We predict a
railroad from Prosser to some point
on the Northern Pacific to a point be-
low Vancouver, within two years, and
that work will be done and lots of it
this fall.
A venerable father of the Roman
Catholic Church has passed to his re-
ward. The Right Rev. A. M. A. Blan-
chet, first bishop of Nesqually, died at
quarter to 4 o'clock Friday afternoon,
at Vancouver.
The Ellensburg New Era says the
Northern Pacific company will be COM
PEELED to snowshed from 80 to 40 miles
of their road in the Cascade mountains,
and that the company will begin the
work next Summer.
Walla Walla Statesman: The pros
poets for Walla Walla county and city
for the year 1887 are very cheering.
A good crop on an unusually large
acreage is certainty, the rainfall this
wheat season being much over aver
age.
Josep McElrath, 16-year old stepson
of E. Ingle, an old pioneer, while load
ing double-barrel shotgun on the
bridge over the Walla Walla river, last
Saturday, let the gun slip, discharging
its contents which lodged in his fore
head, literally blowing his brains out.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Judge Allyn left that city on the
25th ult., for Iowa, to settle up his
private business there and as soon as
that is accomplished he will start for
Washington Territory. 1t does not
look as if he will be here for a couple
of weeks. q
Philip Ritz, of Walla Walla, who is
still in Washington, has been appoint
ed agent for the sale of what is known
as the Anthony Hyde property in Ore
gon and Washington. The land con-
sists of tracts near or partly in Port
land, near Astoria, in the Walla Walla
valley and on Puget Sound, and is val
ued at about 100000.
Cheney Sentinel: Paul Schulze, of
the Northern Pacific Land Depart
ment, will soon make a proposition to
the various counties of the Territory
to pay the taxes on the lands claimed
by the Northern Pacific, at the valua-
ton at which the company are offer
ing the lands for sale, or at valuation
at which adjoining lands are listed by
the Assessor.
The following New York special ap-
pears in the st. Paul Pioneer Press, un-
der date of February 17th; cat a
meeting of the directors of the North
ern Pacific railroad company to-day
the establishment of line of steam
ships between Tacoma and Alaska was
confirmed. The line will be opened in
April and continued through the sea-
son to October. The steamer Olympian
has already been chartered for the ser
vice.
On the 14th ult., Delegate Voorhees,
presented to the House of Representa-.
tives petition Of citizens of Whatcom
county, praying for an appropriation
for the improvement of the Nooksack
river; also q petition of the Executive
Committee of the Grand Lodge oi
Good Templars of Washington Terri.
tory, asking for the favorable consider.
alton of the Senate bill to provide fol
the suppression of traffic in intoxica.
ting liquors in the District of Colum.
bia.
The editor of the Lincoln county
Times of Washington Territory is a
staunch Republican, while his wife il
a dyed-in-the wool Democrat. This
explanation isaall that is necessary te
introduce the following announcement
found in the last issue of the above
mentioned paper: "The editor here
of has left for points on the railroad
hence the Democratic editor and devil
are in charge. Bring on your Demo
cratic editorials now and we'll fix tht
Republican head of the concern toe
plenty"
During Sunday, workmen were en-
gagged in trying tallow at the slaughter
house of Laumeister & Tod, at Ta
coma, and fire was left burning
About two o'clock Monday morning
the entire building with its content.
were consumed by the flames. Sever
al cattle had been slaughtered and the
maaf wos raodv for tho ma IL of of ,,ac